Company Profile
Updated: 14-JUL-09Garamond Press
International Private company
63 Mahogany Ct., Aurora, ON L4G 6M8, Canada
(905)8411460, (905)8413031 fax, http://www.garamond.ca
Primary SIC: Miscellaneous Publishing, Primary NAICS: Database and Directory Publishers
Description: Manufacturing: Garamond Press offers an alternative to multinational textbook publishers and university presses. The company distributes multimedia products and is developing online texts.
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A case for type: message to e-reader manufacturers: don't forget book design.(Soapbox: E-books are here to stay. But must they be one-font-fits all?)
Publishers Weekly; 4/27/2009; 1319 words; ...Duncan (a legend in private press circles). I wanted to prepare...spacing, I headed to the proof press without the slightest hint...Francesco Griffo and Claude Garamond considered the proportions...is publisher of Coffee House Press.
Christopher Burke. Active Literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography.(Book review)
Printing History; 1/1/2009; 1303 words; ...Tschichold and New Typography. London: Hyphen Press, 2007. 366 pp. ISBN 978-0-907259...book, along with his early drawings of a Garamond-inspired font that would eventually...made edition. The publishers (Hyphen Press) and the designer (Christopher Burke...
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 11/12/2008; 951 words; ...beauty, had issued from his press. His foreman, Simon de Colines...types were designed by Claude Garamond . Robert Estienne, a thorough...Geneva in 1550. He set up a press there and continued to print...He inherited his father's press on the express condition that...
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 11/12/2008; 762 words; ...psalter printed by Fust and Schöffer on the Gutenberg press at Mainz in 1457. Gutenberg's Mazarin Bible , completed...in addition to those named above, Geofroy Tory , Claude Garamond , Robert Granjon , Christopher van Dyck , William Caslon...
Christophe Plantin
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 11/12/2008; 453 words; ...are admired for their accuracy and their typography. His equipment included types designed by Garamond and Granjon. The most famous work from his press is the Polyglot Bible (Bible regia) in eight volumes. In the center of his printer's mark...
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